Agreed! Went on the internet to find out about bass traps. Discovered this guy and then found this video. Total fan!

Thanks Elio.

Thanks very much.

Thank you!

Thanks Ben, and nice talking to you again this morning.

Thanks Oren.

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Thanks guys.

Bernie Bosques Thanks Bernie.

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BTW, I have nothing to do with Acoustic Fields. My company is RealTraps: realtraps.com/

Thank you very much!

Thanks Derek.

Thanks!!

Thank Bob. The DSO is a volunteer orchestra, though some of the players are professionals, and many of them are quite good.

agree. sometimes the orchestra was pretty much out of tune...

Thanks Alan. I wanted to be true to the cello origins of this piece, but I had to get a Jeff Beck lick in there too. :->)

You nailed it Winer. And then comes Var 6, sublime. I don't know what that is you're doing, but it's perfect for that passage. And Var 7, the big finish, you remind me of Romero playing Rodrigo. Thanks for this upload.

In the slow Variation 7 I used an E-Bow for infinite sustain, with tone and vibrato settings to emulate a Theremin. The conductor talks about that a bit at the beginning of the video, before the music starts.

Thanks. I wish KZfaq let us insert "chapter markers" like on a DVD so you can easily skip to different sections. I considered leaving off the intro, but thought it might be interesting to some folks.

Wow when I saw this comment 2 years ago thought it was a good idea but also thought they'll never do things like that

and also a great performance I regularly come here

Doug Holmes I did have to transpose in a few places, and I wrote my own part for the longer cadenza in Variation 5. I talked a bit about transposing in my Rococo Preparation video:kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b51xdcxlsNWXnYU.html

Ethan Winer I forgot to look at that video again. Sorry! You did a very good job though, I did a arrangement to a medium skill piano piece for Concert Band, and it was tough enough. Converting a part for a solo Cello part from one of the great composers to electric guitar is no small feat!

Thanks. I forget the exact year I got my Tele, but it missed being a "pre-CBS" by a year or two. It originally had a white pick guard and the usual Tele rhythm pickup. My friend Phil Cramer made the black pick guard, and also routed out the body for me to install the Gibson humbucker. Both of those were done long ago, in the 1970s. Phil is a really amazing guitar player, and an especially cool guy. If you care (with some great guitar playing at the end): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/asV_m7pqqJ2Zop8.html

+Russell Cottier The venue recorded seven microphones: five in the Decca Tree, plus two more high up and off to the sides. I ended up using only those outermost two mics for stereo, but I used the center mic for the conductor's spoken introduction (only) because that picked him up the best. Besides the two stereo mics, I also recorded the output of my DigiTech effects box to a Zoom H2 portable recorder, and mixed that in with the stereo mics during video editing because the guitar sounded a bit too distant in the microphones. I'm glad my friend Peter Hodgson suggested I record the direct output in case the sound wasn't perfectly clear! The mix really needed that. Also, during the extended cadenza (solo) a baby in the audience started crying loudly for half a minute. Fortunately the orchestra wasn't playing then, so I just muted the mics for that entire section, and you'd never know about the baby!

+Ethan Winer sounds excellent. You should check out a project I produced recently. Called A Requiem For Meters. I'll Facebook you a link :-)

+Russell Cottier LOL, I got your PM and just watched the video. That's great. You're welcome to post the link here if you'd like. Someone spent a lot of money making all those instruments!

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Áron Petrus Bölöni I wish I could play Rococo on the cello! As I mentioned in my KZfaq description, I love this piece and always wanted to play it. This was the only way I code do it. Next up is Dvorak!

Thanks DW. Yes, my Tele is early 1970s, though most of the tones are from the DigiTech RP355 I programmed for each section. This video is about my preparation for the concert: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b51xdcxlsNWXnYU.html

i was gonna say slayer

leftaroundabout LOL, my wife hates that big slide at the end, but you're the third person to appreciate the humor. Yes, I'd love to see some famous cellist do that at the end of the Dvorak Concerto!

Thanks for the nice comments, Jake. Yes, standard A-440 tuning. I too like pop arrangements of classical works. A few years ago I did a "prog rock" arrangement of Dvorak's 8th symphony, 4th movement. I even made a web page to describe the project: ethanwiner.com/dvorak8-4.htm In the 1980s I owned a software company, and many of the employees were musicians. After work one of the programmers, Nash Bly, and I used to rehearse the first movement of the Brahms Double Concerto. He'd play the bass part on my Fender bass, and I'd play the cello and violin parts on my Telecaster. It was fun! More recently I made a synthesizer version of St. Seans The Swan, and a full-on pop version of his Allegro Appassionato for cello and orchestra. If you care, those and more are on my Tunes web page: ethanwiner.com/e-tunes.html

Thanks Jakub!

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That's an EBow. If you watch this video from the beginning, the conductor shows it and talks a little about it.

LOL, I love this piece, but I started playing the cello late in life and never got good enough to play it on the cello. But with practice I knew I could do it on the guitar. So I did. More if you care: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b51xdcxlsNWXnYU.html